MAPS
What is north, south, east, west?
the number of colonies under British rule
what is 13?
The three levels of government.
What is local, state, and federal?
original name of WWI
at the request of President Thomas Jefferson, these two men, led an expedition to survey the land West of the Mississippi, known as Louisiana Territory, that had been purchased from France in 1803.
Who is Lewis and Clark?
coordinate system by means of which the position or location of any place on Earth’s surface can be determined and described.
what is latitude and longitude?
the first founded English Colony
Where is Jamestown, Virginia?
"The highest law in the land"
a single document, or piece of writing, that sets out a plan for the United States government. This plan includes some of the most important rules and laws in the United States. No laws are allowed to go against it.
What is the Constitution?
Britain, France, Russia, Italy and the United States
what are the Allies?
the acquisition of the Louisiana territory of New France by the United States from France in 1803. The U.S. paid fifty million francs and a cancellation of debts worth eighteen million francs for a total of sixty-eight million francs
an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°
what is the equator?
a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
the first 10 amendments in the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria
what are the Central Powers?
the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future. Causes of the war included British attempts to restrict U.S. trade, the Royal Navy’s impressment of American seamen and America’s desire to expand its territory. The United States suffered many costly defeats at the hands of British, Canadian and Native American troops over the course of this war
what is the War of 1812?
the earth's zero of longitude
what is the prime meridian?
the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 4, 1776
what is the Declaration of Independence?
the three branches of government
What is legislative, judicial, and executive?
the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors
what is the Great Depression?
The northern states and the southern states
What is the free states and the slave states?
Map showing natural and/or physical features of a landscape, including altitude contours. Also called contour map.
what is a topographical map?
American military officer who served as a general during the American Revolutionary War (hero of the Battle of Saratoga), fighting for the American Continental Army before defecting to the British in 1780 (later knowns as a traitor to America).
Who is Benedict Arnold?
body of electors established by the United States Constitution, constituted every four years for the sole purpose of electing the president and vice president of the United States.
what is the electoral college?
a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. When Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering.
What is the New Deal?
During this period, in the South, cotton plantations were very profitable, at least until overplanting leached most of the nutrients from the soil. Advances in processing the fiber, from Eli Whitney’s cotton gin to the development of power looms and the sewing machine, increased demand for cotton to export from the South to England and the mills of New England.
What is the Antebellum Period?